Posted on 02/05/2005 11:37:51 AM PST by gobucks
ELKTON - Charles Darwin and his intellectual descendants have taken a lashing here lately.
With the Cecil County Board of Education about to vote on a new high school biology textbook, some school board members are asking whether students should be taught that the theory of evolution, a fundamental tenet of modern science, falls short of explaining how life on Earth took shape.
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The politically conservative county of about 90,000 people bordering Pennsylvania and Delaware is joining communities around the country that are publicly stirring this stew of science, education and faith.
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At the Board of Education's regular monthly meeting Feb. 14, the five voting board members are scheduled to decide whether to accept the new edition of the book and might discuss Herold's call for new anti-evolution materials in addition to the book.
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The consensus in mainstream science, represented in such organizations as the National Academy of Sciences, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History, was, in effect, captured in 31 pages of text and illustrations published in November in National Geographic magazine. In big red letters, the magazine cover asks: "WAS DARWIN WRONG?" In bigger letters inside, the answer is: "NO. The evidence for Evolution is overwhelming."
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Joel Cracraft, immediate past president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, compared the scientific agreement on evolutionary theory to "the Earth revolving around the sun."
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Then there's the matter of teaching the meaning and method of good science.
"The issue is science," Roberts said. "What is science, and, if there's a conflicting view, does it meet the rigor of science we're seeking?"
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LOL, thanks!
No, didn't your mother teach you murder is wrong? Are you saying you have to be religious to think murder is wrong? Give me a break.
We can pass more laws against murder, that is great. You just can't base it on religion, establishing your religion and violating the constitution.
So was I ;)
There is only one test that the 1A establishment clause has to pass these days and that is the stupid Lemon Test. You can google it so you know what you are talking about next time you post here at FR.
One extreme example deserves another!
Regards!
And let me add that as long as this is a public forum I'll 'butt in' any time I please.
Meanwhile you are free to desist from getting a grip.
What would you propose as the alternative? I'm just curious.
How long did it take Piltdown to be denounced? How many Lamarckian drawings are still being touted as evidence for evolution? Too long and too many, as far as pure science goes.
Have you ever checked into how the Piltdown evidence was received and published by the "scientific" community?
The 1A.
Oh, the stupid lemon test. Those Supreme Court justices and Harvard lawyers are just not as smart as you.
So tell us Oliver Wendell, what "religious" laws would you like repealed. No God in the pledge? The DOI ruled unConstitutional for the Creator and rights thingy? Crosses removed from the graves of our dead vets?
How about a storm system, or a tornado. Are the air molecules intelligent? As a simpler, if more trivial, example, the sand grains on a beach are organized. The grains are larger to smaller in size as one moves up the beach. Is the surf "intelligent"? Does it "know" to loose energy, and therefore deposit smaller grains, as it moves up the beach?
Do you have to be religious to think abortion is wrong?
Doesn't matter, I'm not arguing with them. I'm arguing with you so like the two guys and the bear I just have to be smarter than you and that doesn't appear to be any big reach on the bell curve.
Who cares?
And let me add that as long as this is a public forum I'll 'butt in' any time I please.Unacceptable.
Reconsider.
Who cares?
You avoid the question. What are you afraid of? I'll ask it again:
Do you have to be religious to think abortion is wrong?
Oops Anti, I mistakenly freep mailed ya response I meant to post here. Sorry.
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